Summative Project for SPH4C, Unit 5. Energy Transformations
Task: This unit is about energy and energy transformations. Your task is to design and build a device that uses four energy transformations to accomplish a task. Working with a partner, you are to choose ‘option A’ OR ‘option B’ below to complete and present at the end of this unit. Both options require you to apply the knowledge you will learn in this unit. The technology or model you will build will involve energy, energy transformations, and efficiency. Your design should help improve efficiency. You will be given time in class to brain storm with your partner about ideas for your project, as well as one class period in the library and one period in class to work on your project. Half way through the unit, you will present your design plan with the teacher.
Option A – Your task is to design, build, test, modify, and analyze an energy-transformation technology that uses at least four energy transformations. You and your partner should come up with a design to present to your teacher before building your project. On presentation day, you and your partner will present the technology to the class along with a 5-10 minute presentation explaining how your team came up with the design and the energy transformations it produces.
Option B – Your task is to research the design and operation of an energy-transformation technology used to increase efficiency in energy use and create a poster to showcase what you have learned. You will then create a model of the technology that involves the same energy transformation as the technology you researched. On presentation day, you and your partner will describe the technology you researched in a 10-15 minute presentation including how you made your model and all energy transformations.
The following analysis questions should be answered regardless of the option you choose: 1) How can you judge whether your technology or model was successful? 2) Who would benefit from the technology you designed or researched? 3) After testing your technology or model, how did you modify it to make improvements? 4) How could the process you used in this task be applied in business or industry? 5) List problems you had while building the technology or model, and explain how you solved them.
(Al, 2003)
Marking Criteria: Option A:
Criteria
mark
Comments
Group members were ready to meet with the teacher and had started the process of designing and troubleshooting their technology half way through the unit
/2
Technology design was well thought out
/5
Technology is well built
/4
Technology demonstrates four energy transformations
/10
Technology is explained and demonstrated well
/5
Analysis questions are answered during student presentation
/5
Presentation is 5-10 minutes long and flows smoothly and logically
/5
Partners worked well together and divided the work evenly
/4
Total
/40
Option B:
Criteria
mark
Comments
Group members were ready to meet with the teacher and had started the process of researching a technology and what model they could build
/2
Poster contains well researched and referenced information pertaining to an energy-transformation technology
/10
Explanation of how the technology transforms energy four times is present in the poster
/5
Model is well built
/4
Model demonstrates same energy transformations as the technology researched
/5
Analysis questions are answered during student presentation
/5
Presentation is 10-15 minutes long and flows smoothly and logically
/5
Partners worked well together and divided the work evenly
/4
Total
/40
Works Cited
Al, H. E. (2003). NelsonPhysics 12 College Preparation. Nelson Thomson Learning.
BUILD AN ENERGY-TRANSFORMATION TECHNOLOGY!!!
Summative Project for SPH4C, Unit 5. Energy Transformations
Task: This unit is about energy and energy transformations. Your task is to design and build a device that uses four energy transformations to accomplish a task. Working with a partner, you are to choose ‘option A’ OR ‘option B’ below to complete and present at the end of this unit. Both options require you to apply the knowledge you will learn in this unit. The technology or model you will build will involve energy, energy transformations, and efficiency. Your design should help improve efficiency. You will be given time in class to brain storm with your partner about ideas for your project, as well as one class period in the library and one period in class to work on your project. Half way through the unit, you will present your design plan with the teacher.
Option A – Your task is to design, build, test, modify, and analyze an energy-transformation technology that uses at least four energy transformations. You and your partner should come up with a design to present to your teacher before building your project. On presentation day, you and your partner will present the technology to the class along with a 5-10 minute presentation explaining how your team came up with the design and the energy transformations it produces.
Option B – Your task is to research the design and operation of an energy-transformation technology used to increase efficiency in energy use and create a poster to showcase what you have learned. You will then create a model of the technology that involves the same energy transformation as the technology you researched. On presentation day, you and your partner will describe the technology you researched in a 10-15 minute presentation including how you made your model and all energy transformations.
The following analysis questions should be answered regardless of the option you choose:
1) How can you judge whether your technology or model was successful?
2) Who would benefit from the technology you designed or researched?
3) After testing your technology or model, how did you modify it to make improvements?
4) How could the process you used in this task be applied in business or industry?
5) List problems you had while building the technology or model, and explain how you solved them.
(Al, 2003)
Marking Criteria:
Option A:
Option B:
Works Cited
Al, H. E. (2003). NelsonPhysics 12 College Preparation. Nelson Thomson Learning.